Awake, awake! (Isaiah 52:1-6, WEB)

Isaiah 52 – Yahweh scolds and prepares his people for the truth and glory of God

Behold, It is I

This Isaiah passage and the music i put it to are a good fit for each other. The song is called Awake! Awake! (Isaiah 52:1-6), from the 6 Sucks Sex album Sick Twisted Loving Jesus. This one spontaneously came into existence, through me, but unplanned by me.

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In my mind, I was preparing to set the Suffering Servant to music, and was looking at Isaiah 52:1-12 to see what came before that famous prophetic poetic prose that begins at Isaiah 52:13 and goes through 53:12. I saw how 52:1-12 made straight made the path for the Suffering Servant.

I had planned to set the Suffering Servant to the music it’s currently on, and to use the Awake! Awake! music for another version of Prayer of a Surrendured Rebel Soul, but i decided to start recording on the track as I vocalized the music, and the first take is the song posted here. I only made it through verse 6, but that seems to be a good note to end on. Divine intervention?

In the song, Yahweh declares to his people Israel to awake and arise from the dust, that he’s soverign and their sin is the reason he’s mocked and blasphemed by other nations. They will be ‘sold and redeemed for nothing’, and they will know Yahweh is God.

Isaiah 52:1-6

1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion.
Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city:
for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.